Now, Dame Elizabeth the Warrior needs to use her sword and plunge it into the giant McConnell anomaly, and his lover - The Orange Buffoon. Please, save us all, Senator Warren!
here’s a thing that i don’t think american kids are told often enough:
STAY AWAY FROM FOR-PROFIT COLLEGES.
ITT tech, virginia colleges, bryant and stratton, the art institutes, university of phoenix, everest, devry, etc - do NOT attend these places. do not give them your money - and it will be a lot of money. They are all, to a one, scams.
For-profit colleges prey on minority, low-income, military, nontraditional, and chronically underemployed students by promising them a quick path to a career. They are lying. They often do not allow the transfer of credits to and from, and many are either unaccredited or accredited by suspect accreditors. They rely on their students to take out massive federal student loan debt. They line their pockets with money from the government and then burden their graduates with tens of thousands of dollars of debt for inadequate education and degrees that aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.
If you’re a non-traditional student looking for a degree, don’t go to a for-profit. Find a community college in your area instead. most ccs have more flexible class times for especially vocational/technical certifications and quite a few offer online-only or hybrid degrees. Hell, if you’re a non-trad student and you have a GED and some spare cash, try studying for a few months and then taking the SATs/ACT and trying for a four-year straight out (that’s what I did). Or get an AA and then do a four-year. Or look for a technical/adult education program sponsored by a local community college or school district. Just please, please, please, don’t go to a for-profit college. They will ruin your credit rating, your finances, and your job prospects.
this post was probably inspired by it but itt tech is almost certainly going into bankruptcy and closing probably asap which heralds the death knell of other for-profit colleges since the us government is finally cutting off their financial assistance for students
basically if you see a commercial for a college on TV, don’t go to it, their degrees are basically worthless and a lot of employers actually think less of someone who has a degree from this type of school than they do someone who doesn’t even have one
It’s cheaper to actually go to a community college and then an accredited state college to get a degree, and right now everyone is offering online coursework like the for-profit model.
I worked for a student loan servicer for years. I once talked to a woman who was 20,000 in debt. She was getting an online-only degree to be a *massage therapist* from a for profit school. No one would hire her, because she had never given a massage.
Another woman I spoke to was trying to get a two year administrative assistant degree. She been going to school for five years, she was 60,000 in debt, she did not have a degree.
For profit schools are cruel scams.
Fuck for-profit schools forever.
shocking. a conservative lies. *gasp*
Conservatives love their anecdotal bullshit stories.
For everyone’s information:
The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.
To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.
On the 17th, dead silence.
People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.
But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.
What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’
A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.
If you want to join in, here’s what to do:
Do:
- Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th
- Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad
- Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion
- Come back on the 18th and check in
Don’t:
- Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)
- Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.
- Open the app or website (including specific blogs)
- Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)
- Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.
Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.
Protests take commitment. They’re a defiant action against a business that is doing something wrong. They will try to scare you into not participating, because they’re scared. We hold all the power here, sometimes the execs just need to be reminded of that.
It was time to impeach on day one, but today is good too.
Brought about because Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein supporters thought they would be vicious little twats and ruin the lives of hundreds of millions of people not only in this country but across the globe. Amazing these white privilege young adults will play this game for the rest of their lives one day thinking other should suffer the next day crying why no one’s helping them and then demanding that everyone else do something as they go back to sit on their thumbs and all their fence perches
Shortly after the 2016 election, it was revealed that the National Rifle Association spent an unprecedented $30 million to help elect Donald Trump, triple what they spent to back Mitt Romney during the 2012 election. Further reports revealed that the NRA had essentially been infiltrated by Russian operatives, including Maria Butina, the Russian woman now sitting in a U.S. federal prison and reportedly cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller. Butina and the Russians created an NRA-like organization called Right to Bear Arms and used it to woo Republicans and American conservatives. And were they ever successful!
In a picture is Former Sheriff David Clarke enjoying a Russian-spy-sponsored trip to Moscow
Butina’s boss, Alexander Torshin, is a powerful Russian banker who is said to have very close ties to Vladimir Putin. Torshin arranged for high-profile conservatives, like then-NRA president David Keene, to be wined and dined in Moscow, along with notoriously nutty former Sheriff David Clarke. The Russians were spoon-feeding these fools and they were eating it up. Outside of boondoggles to Moscow, the Russians may have also been pouring money into the NRA in order to influence American conservatives, and specifically the Donald Trump campaign. During the heat of the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump Jr. met with Torshin at a private dinner hosted by, who else? The NRA.
“One in three people – 117 million Americans – depend on drinking water from water sources protected by the EPA’s Clean Water Rule. It is deeply distressing and unacceptable that the federal government is putting corporate profits ahead of our people’s right to clean water.”
- U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders
Hey Bernie are you going to mention that Trump was able to do this because some of your supporters voted for him instead of for the right thing instead of for the environment instead of for the planet? Are you going to mention that the green party of the United States is not an environmental party it’s a Putins bitch party I’d like to hear you start mentioning those things instead of trying to act so self-righteous like your hands are clean your hands are dirty as fuck
More than impeachment, he needs to be recalled and arrested - no questions asked.
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